This was not all. The girl was traced and captured; and the same day Biddy was told she must go to Queen-square to identify the prisoner. "Me," she exclaimed, "who never was in the place of the law before, what can I say but that she tuck it?" An Irish cause always creates a sensation in a police-office. The magistrates smile at each other, the reporter cuts his pencil and arranges his note-book, and the clerk covers the lower part of his face with his hand, to conceal the expression that plays around his mouth. Biddy's curtsey--a genuine Irish dip--and her opening speech, which she commenced by wishing their honours "a merry Christmas and plenty of them, and that they might have the power of doing good to the end of their days, and never meet with ingratitude for that same," was the only absurdity connected with her deposition. When she saw the creature with whom her heart had dwelt so long, in the custody of the police, she was completely overcome, and intermingled her evidence with so many entreaties that mercy should be shown the hardened delinquent, that the magistrate was sensibly affected. Short as was the time that had elapsed between Louisa's elopement and discovery, she had spent the money and pawned the ring: and twenty hands at least were extended to the Irish Washerwoman with money to redeem the pledge. Poor Biddy had never been so rich before in all her life; but that did not console her for the sentence passed upon her protege, and it was a long time before she was restored to her usual spirits. She flagged and pined; and when the spring began to advance a little, and the sun to shine, her misery became quite troublesome, her continual wail being "for the poor sinful craythur who was shut up among stone walls, and would be sure to come out worse than she went in!" The old cook lived to grow thoroughly ashamed of the reproaches she cast on Biddy, and Jessie shows her off on all occasions as a specimen of an Irish Washerwoman. QUICK SENSES OF THE ARAB.--Their eyesight is peculiarly sharp and keen. Almost before I could on the horizon discern more than a moving speck, my guides would detect a stranger, and distinguish upon a little nearer approach, by his garb and appearance, the tribe to which he belonged.--_Wellsted's City of the Caliphs._ THE IRISH IN 1644: AS DESCRIBED BY A FRENCHMAN OF THAT PERIOD.